Oklahoma City-based OneCore Health received multiple five-star ratings from Healthgrades for outpatient care, including rotator cuff repair and back and neck surgery. Healthgrades, which evaluates ...

Downers Grove, Ill.-based Duly Health and Care has acquired a minority ownership interest in Valley Ambulatory Surgery Center. The acquisition was made through a partnership with Surgery Partners, and ...

Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) are increasingly important to health systems’ long-term growth strategies. ASC partnerships or purchases can increase a health system’s revenue and capacity and ...

The Department of Justice has created a new Enforcement & Affirmative Litigation branch within the department’s civil division in an effort to escalate civil fraud enforcement and government lawsuits, ...

Essentia Health-South University Clinic in Fargo, N.D., has added Markus Erb, MD, to its staff.  Dr. Erb is a pediatric cardiologist and treats conditions including blood clots, congestive heart ...

HCA Florida Capital Hospital in Tallahassee, has appointed Jack Atwater, MD, as chief medical officer.  Dr. Atwater has more than three decades of clinical experience, serving as a general ...

Atlanta-based United Digestive has forged a new partnership with Tampa, Fla.-based Gastro MD and Gastroternology of Greater (Orlando) Fla. According to an Oct. 28 news release shared with Becker’s, ...

Kristen Richards, the vice president of ambulatory care at Cardiovascular Logistics, a national , physician-led cardiovascular platform, joined Becker’s to discuss the obstacles to the outpatient ...

Ambulatory surgery centers have become one of the most dynamic — and pressured — segments of healthcare. At Becker’s 31st Annual ASC Conference, Scott Becker, JD, Founder and Chief Content Officer, ...

As more procedures migrate from hospitals to outpatient settings, robotic surgery is following suit — but not all technologies are designed with ASCs in mind. At Becker’s 31st Annual Meeting, ...

Four states are emerging as focal points in the national debate over updating the title “physician assistant” to “physician associate,” according to an Oct. 28 news release from the American Academy ...

Nashville, Tenn.-based AmSurg has acquired Surgery Center of Conway (S.C.), marking the organization’s fourth facility based in South Carolina.  Surgery Center of Conway is 5,000 square feet and ...